Common Weaknesses P.5 English

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Common WeaknessesP.5 English
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Example 1

• (All examples are extracted from 07-08 P.5
  Reading and Writing Test and Exam)

Speaking Exam Presentation 30 (Ideas 25
Accuracy 5)
Your friend from America is visiting Hong Kong.
What places in Hong Kong will you take him to
and why?
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• Our boys weaknesses
• Students dont like to read the information or
  passages once before answering the questions.
• 2. Students fail to elaborate the answers.
• 3. They tell their experience about visiting one
  or two of the above places only.
• 4. As their answers are not rich in contents,
  they cant get high marks in Ideas. Mostly, they
  can get less than 20 marks in Ideas.

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Example 2
Reading Test A. Tims classmate, John, is absent
from school today. He wrote about it in his
diary. Read the diary. Answer the questions in
complete sentences. 30 _at_5 18th October, 2007
(Friday) Cloudy My classmate, John is sick. He
was absent from school today. He has been in
hospital since last Sunday because he had a bad
stomach-ache. His doctor wants him to stay in the
hospital until he feels better. Johns mother
told me that he got sick because he had eaten
some dirty fish balls that he bought from a
hawker. One day when I was on my way home, I saw
him buying some fish balls from a hawker. It is
not safe to buy food from hawkers because they do
not have a license to sell food. Therefore, we
should not buy food from them. I will visit John
after school tomorrow. I think he must be very
bored in the hospital. I know John enjoys reading
comic books very much so I will take some with
me. I hope he will get well soon. 1. How many
days has John been absent from school? He has
been absent for 5 days (It
is difficult for the pupils to count the number
of the days (from last Sunday till
todayFriday) 2. How did Tim know what happened
to John? Johns mother told him that John was
sick. (Pupils had the difficulty to find
out the answer from the diary directly.)
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Example 3 Reading Exam
A. Emma loves travelling. She is talking to her
classmate, Lily, about what they can do in Laguna
Town in England. Read the information below and
answer the questions in complete sentences.
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1. Emma likes growing plants. What activity
should she choose? She can / should go to
the flower show at Green Country Park. 2. Lily
loves drawing and making crafts. Which place is
she going to visit? She is going to visit the
Modern Art Museum. Students weakness in
the 1. The
use of articles (e.g. Q3 She is going to visit
Modern Art Museum). 2. Difficulty in writing
their own sentences. They like to copy the
answers from the posters. (e.g. Q1 She
should choose Green Country Park flower show.)
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Example 4

• (C) The children get a school notice. Read the
  notice first.
• Happy Forever School
  Ref S07 / 128
  Friday 4th, April
• Dear Students,
• The school barbecue day is on Friday, 25th
  April. The location is Sai Kung Country Park.
  That day, we should meet at the school entrance
  at 830 a.m. There are a few things I would like
  you to note.
• PE Uniform Wear our P.E tracksuits that day. You
  should wear sports shoes. Dont wear leather
  shoes. Its really dangerous ?
• Food Drinks The school will order small
  barbecue packs, distilled water and snacks for
  you. Dont bring any food or drinks. You cannot
  buy snacks at the snack shop either.
• Emergency Our teachers will set up some
  first-aid stations in the country park. One is at
  the entrance of the country park. The other is
  next to the snack shop. Another is behind the
  Ladies toilets. It is between the barbecue zone
  and a stream. If you get hurt or need any help,
  go to these stations. Each class will have a
  class meeting to talk about the details of the
  barbecue. It will be next Friday. I wish all of
  you a happy barbecue!
• The
  Headmaster

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Example 4 (Cont.)
1 )When will be the class meeting? ? A. 4th April
? B. 25th April ? C. 11th April ? D.
18th April (Students didnt read the question
carefully. Most of them chose A as the correct
answer.) 2) How many first-aid stations can you
find in the country park? ? A. 6 ? B.
5 ? C. 4 ? D. 3 (They had to
count the number of first-aid stations
themselves.-careless) 3) The reference number of
this school notice is S 07 / 128. (They were not
familiar with the text-types.)
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Our boys weaknesses in reading part

• Scan the sentence without understanding.
• Do not read the rubric.
• Tend to copy the exact wordings from the passage.
  Do not have confidence in writing in their own
  words.
• Fail to answer the questions in correct tenses.
• Unable to answer some questions which students
  cannot find out the answers directly from the
  passage.
• Get frustrated easily when they see a lot of
  English words.
• Weak in scanning.

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Example 5
G. Tim is writing an e-mail, introducing his
friends to his uncle, Sam, who is living in
Australia. Please help him to complete the e-mail
with the help of the pictures.

30 _at_6 Dear Uncle Sam, How are you? Hows the
weather in Australia? Hows your work? Im glad
to tell you that Ive been chosen as the class
monitor by my class teacher recently. Besides,
Ive made some friends in my class. Let me
introduce some of them to you. Sally ___is the
girl who is drinking ______a bottle of
milk. (Some of the pupils gave the wrong answer
Sally is the girl who is with a bottle of
milk.) _____Who is____ the boy __in___ a blue
hat ? Thats __Paul.____ (Most of the pupils
failed to give a correct question. They intended
to give a sentence.)
D.
Blue
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Example 6 and 7
E.
F.
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Example 6 and 7 (Cont)
Part E 1) They were careless in reading the
grid. 2) They did not know they
should write Peter as the best citizen.
3) Most of them wrote on Lily and Tim.
4) Some of them wrote all the children.
5) Only a few of them wrote it
correctly. Part F 1) They did not read the
instructions again. 2) Some of them
wrote their own experience. 3)
Incorrect use of tenses some of them used past
tense instead of using future
tense.
Our boys weaknesses in writing part

• Do not read the rubric AGAIN!
• STILL do not know what task-based is. The parts
  are inter-related!
• Weak in logic
• Interpret wrongly who the subject of the story
  is!
• Wrong tenses/agreement
• Careless spelling mistakes
• Seldom do the editing

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